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Weekly Media Update 2010-35
The Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe
Monday Septmber 6th - Sunday September 12th 2010
September 17, 2010

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A strike by Air Zimbabwe pilots, which resulted in the cancellation of most of the airline's international flights, leaving thousands of travellers stranded, made headlines in all the media this week.

While the government media reported this strike in isolation of simmering labour unrest in other economic sectors, the private media viewed it as "a tip of the iceberg".

In other stories the government media carried a significant number of reports propping up President Mugabe's image, without providing any context. The private media, on the other hand, paid attention to the intensifying debate on national elections, following weekend reports that Mugabe had directed Finance Minister Tendai Biti to budget for the polls, and revelations by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai that he and Mugabe had agreed to hold them next year.

Although both the government and private media highlighted endless confusion in the constitutional outreach consultation programme, the government media paid lip service to incidents of politically motivated violence, which the private media argued undermined the credibility of Zimbabwe's constitutional reforms.

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